mish

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English

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Etymology

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Simple spoken contraction of mission, missionary.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mish (countable and uncountable, plural mishes)

  1. (British, slang, countable) A mission or task.
    • 2015, Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp:
      I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards?
  2. (slang, uncountable) Missionary (sex position).
    • 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail:
      The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.
    • 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123:
      Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.

References

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  • (mission): Tony Thorne (2014) “mish”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *miśśa < *meśśa, from Proto-Indo-European *memsa- (meat). Compare Armenian միս (mis), Serbo-Croatian meso, Russian мя́со (mjáso), Tocharian B mīsa, Old Prussian mensa, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsá).[1]

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Noun

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mish m (plural mishra, definite mishi, definite plural mishrat)

  1. flesh; meat
  2. flesh, naked skin

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 219

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish messe.

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Pronoun

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mish

  1. First person singular emphatic personal pronoun; I, me.
    Creid mish!Believe me!
    Mish lhiat!The same here!
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  • mee (non-emphatic)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Pipil mishtun (cat), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmiʃ/ [ˈmiʃ]
  • Rhymes: -iʃ
  • Syllabification: mish

Noun

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mish m (plural mish, feminine misha, feminine plural mishas, masculine misho, masculine plural mishos)

  1. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala) kitten
    Synonym: michi

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